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Definition of Addlepated
1. Adjective. Stupid and confused. "A confused puddingheaded, muddleheaded fellow"
Definition of Addlepated
1. Adjective. Addled; confused; stupid; flustered. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Addlepated
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Addlepated
Literary usage of Addlepated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall (1824)
"... calls me discerning and liberal on the night before his benefit, and Cobbet
stigmatizes me ai addlepated when he is detected in a plan to humbug me. ..."
2. West African Studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1901)
"him things about medicines, and finally sending him back into town in so addlepated
a condition that for months he hardly knows who he exactly is. ..."
3. All in it: "K(1)" Carries on by Ian Hay (1917)
"To the former the contribution came from that well-meaning but somewhat addlepated
warrior, Private Nigg, who formed one of the raiding party. ..."
4. The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated (1870)
"Surgery can not be carried on by addlepated adventurers. Only those who know
precisely where an instrument may be carried with impunity, ..."
5. How England Saved Europe: The Story of the Great War (1793-1815) by William Henry Fitchett (1900)
"... that the son of such a father, and the brother of such a statesman, should
have possessed the most addlepated head that ever wore a cocked hat. ..."
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